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Thanks all, especially Anne. This is exactly what I was looking for.

Joshua Welker
Library Systems and Discovery Coordinator
James C. Kirkpatrick Library
University of Central Missouri
Warrensburg, MO 64093
JCKL 2260
660.543.8022



On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 8:09 AM Anne Marie Lyons <
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>  Hello Joshua,
> I recommend the 'EAD2HTML Transforming Your Finding Aids via XSLT' online
> workshop, taught by Bill Walker at Amigos Library Services. I took it last
> year, and I thought it was an informative and very engaging hands-on
> introduction to EAD and XSLT: EAD2HTML: Transforming your Finding Aids with
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> Date:    Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:13:47 -0500
> From:    Josh Welker <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: EAD newbies looking for help getting started
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> Hi all,
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> We are about to embark on a first-time project encoding some of our special
> collections pathfinders in EAD format. The staff involved have no
> experience with EAD and minimal experience with XML at all. Does anyone
> know of any good learning/training materials, whether book, video, online
> course, etc.?
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> I am also interested in seeing how libraries actually display this
> information to the user. Do people just use XSLT stylesheets to transform
> the EAD documents into human-readable web pages? How/where do you index the
> EAD files?
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> Joshua Welker
> Information Technology Librarian
> James C. Kirkpatrick Library
> University of Central Missouri
> Warrensburg, MO 64093
> JCKL 2260
> 660.543.8022
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